Massively multiplayer online game.
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Scratch Multiplayer games- Multiplayer Help Making game [on hold]
I have made some small multiplayer games on scratch ( scratch.mit.edu ) and have been constantly puzzled by how a user named griffpatch is having both a highscore table, a saved achievements, and a ...
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How to promote an indie game on Google Play? [duplicate]
We're currently on the Alpha stage and searching through possible ways to promote our game. Hope you can help with advice.
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Software design of a browser-based strategic MMO game
I wonder if there are any known tested software designs for Travian-like browser-based strategic MMO games? I mean how would they implement the server of such games or what is stored in database and ...
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MMO, server-side line of sight
I am working on a simple tile-based multiplayer game. I am rather experienced programmer, but not so experienced game developer.
The players will see each other depending if there is a blocking ...
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Why do MMO games forbid real-money trading?
I am soon going to go public with an MMO game and I am currently in the progress of writing the terms of use I expect players to follow (no swearing, no spamming, no cheating... you get the point).
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How to synchronize actions like jump in multiplayer?
I am a newbie game developer and I have been researching about multiplayer games. I observed that there's always some latency, the players always get updates from past actions. But there are ...
0
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1answer
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Structure examples for web-based chat for web-based game [closed]
What would be the best tools to use to create a web based chat/messaging system ?
for client we have :
Browser (any JS solution - preferably without using flash like in jsocket)
for server we have :
...
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4answers
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How should chat be transmitted and stored in an MMO?
Players in MMO games can usually send messages over different channels (private, public, guilds, et cetera).
How would I transmit and store this data so as to prevent outside users from being able to ...
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Why would an online MMO throttle actions per day?
I started playing Die2Nite and was surprised that it has such a strict limit on the number of actions per day. After a while, I figured it was just part of the charm.
I also started playing Magic ...
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1answer
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Tracking player location in realtime 2d mmo
I have read all of the answers here about tracking player locations, but still have some questions. I don't seem to understand how to do this efficiently, and feel that the internet could greatly ...
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1answer
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MMORPG Entitiy handling on different maps
Is this a good approach for a MMORPG entity handling on different maps?
Map Structure and entity existece:
A map is basically a parent node in a scene graph. There's one map for each town, room ...
7
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MMORPG server-side java architecture
I am currently making a MMORPG game, which is turn-based. The client is supposed to run on Android. Now, my friend is doing the graphics, and I have been doing the game classes (player, weaponry, ...
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Will running cron jobs every minute a good practice?
I'm trying to create a browser-based game (made in PHP, MySQL, Js, HTML, and CSS) that is heavily dependent on user's actions being carried out after a certain amount of time passed whether online or ...
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What tech will enable a script to run after a certain amount of time elapsed following a user's action?
I'm trying to experiment in creating an MMO browser-based game using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML5, and CSS.
There is this certain functionality that I want in my game that I'm having trouble with.
...
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MMORPG with level system like The Elder Scrolls [closed]
Why arent there any MMORPS with a leveling system like the elder scrolls?
(Leveling skills/stats by using them and upgrading your character level at X skill lvlups)
And what are the Pros and Cons of ...
3
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3answers
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MMOFPS Choosing protocol for high-traffic network (UDP or TCP)? [closed]
my question about the player position sender protocol. In this article, he says "Never use TCP for networking a multiplayer game". Ok but UDP datas are not ordered. In this case, if somebody walking, ...
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2answers
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MMOFPS Player Positions [closed]
I'm working on a MMO game project. I have a question about MMOFPS game architecture. (I have basic network knowladge)
(MMOFPS) I want to send player position to other players(clients) and other ...
4
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1answer
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MMORPG game map in-memory storage techniques
For 2-3 years I've been interested into MMO development.
I'm browsing some emulators source codes and open source projects.
Usually I'm checking how the game server stores data about the 2D map.
...
3
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2answers
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Stronger Hack-proof MMO Game Comparison: Game Client Based Vs. Via Web Browser [duplicate]
I was wondering. I observed most of any MMO that are hack-prone area. Hacks used one-hit kills, stealing accounts, instant level up, aimbots (mostly MMOFPS), and questionable wallers (also in MMOFPS). ...
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How to integrate Javascript into C# and run scriptcode step by step
We are currently working on a Pokemon MMO trying to figure out how to implement an asynchronous scripting language the best. We don't want to work with threads or tasks, but the goal was to wait for ...
0
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1answer
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The game-server model to handle user actions
I'm starting to work on a mobile game that will have a server-side part (to handle user's interactions between them) and, of course, the client (game itself) part. It's not meant to be a browser game ...
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3answers
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How to make sure user is running the newest version of mmo client?
In typical mmorpg game, you have a launcher and a client. You first run the launcher to update the client, then you run the client. In every mmo I tried if you run a client without updating first (if ...
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Is there a way to make a dynamic world such as a MMORPG horizontally scalable?
Imagine a open-world of 500+ players with data changing as fast as 20 updates/player/second. Last time I worked in a similar MMORPG, it used SQL, so obvioulsy it couldn't query the DB all the time. ...
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2answers
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Integer vs String for “type” data in data-driven games
I've been developing a few mobile games, in which those games fetch their data from a server-database.
I'm used to storing "type" values as an integer identifier, and an enum in the client to ...
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Browser UDP Relay with TCP Websocket
I'm wondering if this is possible and what obstacles I might face.
I have a game that's browser based, and since I can't send UDP packets from a browser, Can I use a plugin that the browser connects ...
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Tricks in game mechanics to avoid dealing with network lag compensation?
Implementing network lag compensation is hard, how to avoid it?
Maybe it's possible to use tricks and build game mechanics in such a way that lag would be percieved as a non critical or even as a ...
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Online MMO collision detection for players & walls
Let's assume the following:
I have a server which stores the player's position (float x, float y, float z)
Client sends the server it's updated position ever 250ms or so.
Server has bounding boxes ...
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How many database connection should use in a MMO game server?
Game server links to database, how many database connection should use? The data update works like this:
update role object to database every X minutes, commit all updates every Y minutes.
There are ...
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2answers
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Networking dynamic game worlds
I'm working on a 3D massively multiplayer space game in C++ and I'd like some advice from experienced game developers.
Essentially, the world (universe) simulated on the server is absolutely dynamic, ...
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When and where should I calculate collision response with multiplayer physics?
I've troubles wrapping my head around multiplayer physics and collisions on the client side, so far I interpolate the state of my network entities ( position and velocity ) of the other clients based ...
